Tag: Hermeticism

“In fact you have always had this freedom, for this state of union with Brahman can neither be attained nor lost; all men and all things have it, in spite of themselves. It can only be realized, which is to say made real to you, by letting life live you for a while instead of trying to make yourself live life.”
—Alan Watts

These texts include the Corpus Hermeticum (1472), the first printed version of the tree of life, and some works by Jakob Böhme and Giordano Bruno. Brown’s contribution will help the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica—also known as the Ritman Library—open their “Hermetically Open” digital archive to the public in the coming months.